Secret memo links citizenship question to apportionment

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It has long been speculated that the Trump administration wanted the citizenship question in order to exclude people in the country illegally from apportionment numbers.

by the Supreme Court in 2019. In the high court’s decision, Chief Justice John Roberts said the reason the Commerce Department had given for the citizenship question — it was needed for the Justice Department’s enforcement of the Voting Rights Act — appeared to be contrived.

According to the House committee report, during planning for the citizenship question, an adviser to the Commerce Department reached out to awho had written that using citizen voting-age population instead of the total population for the purpose of redrawing of congressional and legislative districts could be advantageous to Republicans and non-Hispanic whites.

An even later draft removed apportionment as an exception to the Commerce Secretary's discretion and added “there is nothing illegal or unconstitutional about adding a citizenship question." The House report says Uthmeier researched using Voting Rights Act enforcement as a reason for the citizenship question three months before the Justice Department requested it, and hand-delivered his memo with that suggestion to the Justice Department in order to avoid a digital fingerprint.

 

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From top to bottom, the most corrupt administration in our history. Not even close. But in the GOP, corruption is now applauded, even mandatory.

It has been long speculated that Yahoo News has an agenda & reports more opinions .vs facts.

It should be a question

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